Rachel Donadio

Jacqueline Mia Foster

Rachel Donadio is the European Culture Correspondent for the New York Times. Based in Paris, she writes about culture, high and low, across the continent.

From September 2008 until August 2013 she was Rome Bureau Chief, covering the vicissitudes of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi; political and social disarray in Greece amid the European debt crisis; and historic changes at the Vatican, including the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and election of Pope Francis.

Ms. Donadio joined The Times in 2004 as a reporter-editor at the Book Review, where she wrote essays on literary culture and contributed widely to other sections of the paper. She grew up in Middlebury, Vt., and studied Italian and French at Middlebury College. She graduated from Yale University with honors in Humanities in 1996.

She worked as a translator and tour guide in Rome before beginning her career in journalism at the ANSA news agency in Rome and The International Herald Tribune’s Italy Daily in Milan. Before joining The Times, she covered culture and politics for The Forward, The New York Observer and other publications.

February 28, 2015, Saturday

Coming in second were Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s “The Club,” about a home for errant priests, which took the grand jury prize, the Silver Bear, and “Ixcanul Volcano,” by the Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante.